There are many milestones in the career of actor and activist Nicola Coughlan you could call transformational. Landing the role of Joyce Emily Hammond in a 2018 London stage production of. The hit series has been a key stepping stone on the path that has taken Coughlan, 36, from Galway, Ireland, to London and finally to Hollywood.
“It’s so silly to me,” she says of fame, “because I was with a designer the other day and he was saying, for this collection we’re dressing Beyoncé, Cardi B and you, and I was like, that’s so funny to me. I thought, you don’t know who I am – I’m literally the girl who works at the local shop.”Fame, she says, is a strange land to inhabit. “It makes you more aware of yourself,” she says. “It doesn’t exacerbate anything that’s not already there.
Peel open the story of Coughlan’s life and a thread begins to form along the seam where actor and activist meet. During the London run ofabout the treatment of women’s bodies in the media. Responding to one critic, she wrote: “He was meant to review my work. Instead he reviewed my body. That is not acceptable.”
co-star Siobhán McSweeney led a march over London’s Westminster Bridge, supporting the decriminalisation of abortion in Northern Ireland. Coughlan worked with a UK charity involved in addressing period poverty several years ago, so when the call came, the issue resonated. “It feels like such a basic human need – and it’s a basic human need for half the population. So when you don’t have access to it, it’s insane.
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